What do you think about Mongodb as a technology?

[peerreynders]

@tobleron

This somehow reminds of the Optimistic UI used by frameworks like Meteor.

I think this is more a failing of Meteor’s implementation than the idea of Optimistic UI: Don’t block the user, get out of the way.

• Visually keep the distinction between a pending task and a fulfilled one subtle as it will likely succeed (and don’t block the next action)
• However a compensating action needs to be viable and available in case the task does fail.

How do you achieve Optimistic UI in Phoenix with LiveView?

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